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Vertical Video Syndrome

It has been too long since I wrote a blog post, too long! Like many of us the Fall is an extremely busy time of the year. When I write I want to share experiences that I feel can be of value to similar educators in the fields of digital ...

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The 10 Cube Challenge: Using Virtual Worlds to Foster Creative Thinking

In recent articles I have written a little about my exploration of using 3D Virtual Worlds as an effective online learning environment. They’re obviously engaging at the beginning, but once the novelty of being able to fly, walk on water, and pass through walls disappears, students are basically sitting and ...

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Now on iTunesU – Making Technology Valuable: Stories of meaningful assessment

For those of you that don’t know, iTunesU is a reasonably new selection from the iTunes Store, like Podcasts, the user is able to subscribe to a channel, and the content is downloaded to a unique folder in your iTunes library. As a tribute to its success and growth, an ...

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Technical Literacy V Creativity: How to integrate creativity into the technical literacy of movie making

Recently, I attended the Media Educators of America Conference, at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. The event provided an opportunity to connect with faculty around some of the important issues primarily related to media literacy. During a conversation that took place as part of a round table discussion, a teacher asked the ...

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FourSight: Thinking Styles in Creative Problem-Solving

Creative Problem Solving is a process that allows people to apply both creative and critical thinking to find solutions to challenges, to take advantage of opportunities, or to act on ideas. It is a way to organize information and ideas in order to solve problems. Steven Johnson highlights the advantage ...

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